Sunday, January 9, 2011

Simulating Fools

Where is GigaText when we need them?!  We need to simulate that as well!  A happy people do not blog about technology failures; rather, they laud and sing hymns to technology break-throughs!  Pierced with the arrows of technical insight!

Simulate everything - especially the sound of millions down the drain ...

And don't forget those happiness metrics and social networking tag indices ... and simulating the interest world-wide in which individuals are being simulated tracking the world simulator's versimilitude ...

Let's start be simulating Iowa.  No, to get that right we first need to simulate the United States - let's start there.  And to be ready for the IPO, let's start by simulating 2014 first and then work back to 2011 if our web hits justify the expense ...

In fairness, this as deen on BBC Technology page and not the sci/env page where some sanity is present (so CNN has no such rubric.)

Favourite science web quote of the past week: the last super-nova in the Milky Way occurred 600 years ago.

Runner-up: man who submits data anomaly credited with discovering 4 gas giant exo-planets without a telescope (and which amateur telescope might he otherwise have used?)  Discovery attribution peer-evaluated by ....

Let me see ... kid discovers body (says there is a new lumpy area in the woods and Dad digs it up but stops at first sight of what could be part of a skull) ; forensics team identifies body as that of X - so kid discovered X without use of what?  Their gas injection spectroscopy machine?  Their DNA gel sheets?  Dental xrays?  Tweezers?

In the running: Vultures as spies; spy agency sharks in the Red Sea.

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